Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The modern Dutch alphabet consists of the 26 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet and is used for the Dutch language. Five (or six) letters are vowels and 21 (or 20) letters are consonants. The letter E is the most frequently used letter in the Dutch alphabet, usually representing a schwa sound. The least frequently used letters are Q and X.The digraph IJ is not considered a letter or part of the Dutch alphabet by the Dutch Language Union or Genootschap Onze Taal, although its rules for capitalization and, sometimes, collation differ from that of the other digraphs in the Dutch language, more closely resembling those of a letter. In some contexts IJ is substituted for Y as the 25th letter of the alphabet or (more rarely) added before Y, extending the alphabet to 27 letters.On vowels, stress marks may be used, for instance: "je móét dat doen" ("you must do that"). Such vowels are not considered separate letters and are treated as if there were no marks present.In loanwords from languages written in Latin script, diacritical marks are usually preserved (café, façade, übermensch). However, ligatures like ß, æ, and œ become ss, ae, and oe respectively.Until the nineteenth century, the ſ or long s was also used for words in the Dutch language, but was then replaced with the regular s. The ligature æ was sometimes used (for example in the name Æneas Mackay), but today the letters ae would replace it.. }
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- Dutch_alphabet abstract "The modern Dutch alphabet consists of the 26 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet and is used for the Dutch language. Five (or six) letters are vowels and 21 (or 20) letters are consonants. The letter E is the most frequently used letter in the Dutch alphabet, usually representing a schwa sound. The least frequently used letters are Q and X.The digraph IJ is not considered a letter or part of the Dutch alphabet by the Dutch Language Union or Genootschap Onze Taal, although its rules for capitalization and, sometimes, collation differ from that of the other digraphs in the Dutch language, more closely resembling those of a letter. In some contexts IJ is substituted for Y as the 25th letter of the alphabet or (more rarely) added before Y, extending the alphabet to 27 letters.On vowels, stress marks may be used, for instance: "je móét dat doen" ("you must do that"). Such vowels are not considered separate letters and are treated as if there were no marks present.In loanwords from languages written in Latin script, diacritical marks are usually preserved (café, façade, übermensch). However, ligatures like ß, æ, and œ become ss, ae, and oe respectively.Until the nineteenth century, the ſ or long s was also used for words in the Dutch language, but was then replaced with the regular s. The ligature æ was sometimes used (for example in the name Æneas Mackay), but today the letters ae would replace it.".